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The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MInternational$9.9MYouth Development$309kEducation$249kEnvironment$41kHealth$30kCivil Rights$21kSocial Science$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.6M
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC$2,606,549
Individual grant recipient$50,000
THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM$50,000
PUBLICOLOR$50,000
LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL$27,500
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS$21,670
EMERGE 125$5,000
OUTWARD BOUND USA$5,000
WSHUSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$5,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING$5,000
REHEARSAL FOR LIFE$2,160
PEN AMERICA$1,039
CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST$1,030
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE$1,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 44% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 56% that went abroad ($14M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NAACPACTBLUE: $10k → 8%REHEARSAL FOR LIFE: $10k → 16%THE NORMAN S IVES FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK: $10k → 10%OUTWARD BOUND USA: $10k → 9%OPEN SOURCE GALLERY INC: $20k → 20%MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS: $12.4M → 14%WSHUSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%THE JOSEF ALBERS MUSEUM: $31k → 16%REHEARSAL FOR LIFE: $5k → 16%OUTWARD BOUND USA: $10k → 9%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $15k → 12%OUTWARD BOUND USA: $10k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $55k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $15k → 12%OUTWARD BOUND USA: $6k → 9%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $9k → 14%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $50k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $15k → 12%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $35k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $10k → 12%BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS: $35k → 17%THE GLASS HOUSE: $6k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $28k → 11%BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS: $29k → 17%THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $25k → 11%BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS: $23k → 17%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $50k → 12%PUBLICOLOR: $65k → 17%PUBLICOLOR: $50k → 17%LONG WHARF THEATRE: $35k → 12%PUBLICOLOR: $50k → 17%PUBLICOLOR: $50k → 17%PUBLICOLOR: $50k → 17%PUBLICOLOR: $27k → 17%THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM: $50k → 17%THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM: $50k → 17%THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM: $30k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $2.6M → 12%THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $2.1M → 12%ELISA MONTE DANCE COMPANY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $2.0M → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $1.8M → 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $1.5M → 12%BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS: $22k → 17%BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS: $11k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NC
SC
DC

Beyond the US: 56% of all-years giving ($14M)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$12M · 6 grants
NE$1.0M · 2 grants
Spain$400k · 1 grant
Ireland$71k · 3 grants
Iran$50k · 1 grant
Germany$31k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$1k · 3 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 19 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
41

Total granted

$11M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+41%

Still filing today

84%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +34% · 92% of their budget
  • PI
    PUBLICOLOR INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +19%
  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $193k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MD
    MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS
    one grant, 2022 · $12M
  • KD
    KUNSTMUSEUM DEN HAAG
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • IV
    INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ARTE MODERNO
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
2
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
Artists in Residence Inc

Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…

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11
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
12
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is Norman S Ives Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS: $12,403,610 · OtherMUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE PARISKUNSTMUSEUM DEN HAAG: $1,004,000 · OtherKUNSTMUSEUM DEN HAAG+36 more: $666,317 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $9,866,411 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INCTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC: $119,470 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $85,000 · Arts & CultureART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureOpen Source Gallery Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORMAN S IVES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $17,264 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $40,084 · Arts & CulturePUBLICOLOR INC: $292,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $192,500 · Education+1 more: $563 · EducationOUTWARD BOUND INC: $41,181 · EnvironmentTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Social ScienceCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF NEW YORK: $1,000 · Civil RightsFIFTY VANDERBILT FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$14,073,927Philanthropy$9,866,411Arts & Culture$516,818Education$485,063Environment$41,181Social Science$5,000Civil Rights$1,000Recreation & Sports$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LE KORSA INC: $9,866,411 over 5y, 92% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $292,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $192,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $140,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC: $119,470 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $41,181 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOpen Source Gallery Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNORMAN S IVES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $17,264 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGE 125 INC: $7,510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ABSTRACT ARTISTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST: $2,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE: $1,740 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $1,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $563 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN SLADE ELY HOUSE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTURY ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIFTY VANDERBILT FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Newalliance Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Connecticut Humanitie…International Associa…The Ford FoundationMilton and Sally Aver…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Newalliance Foundation IncCT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · International Association of New Haven Inc · The Ford Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • Eli Whitney Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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